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A French chemist timo necessary to transform a low grade wine asserts that if tea be ground like coffee before to one of an agreeable and superior quality, is hot water is poured upon it, it will yield nearyield nearfrom two to three weeks, with the battery ly double the amount of its exhilarating qualities. continually working. By this method, wines which were considered only fit for making vinegar, are changed to such an extent that they are used as good, and in some cases superior table wines. (See No. 726.) The latter deteriorates by exfoliation, without the development of any vegetation. 6302. To Impart a Fine Flavor to Tea. To impart a fine flavor to ordinary tea, place rose leaves in the tea-canister, or add one drop of the attar of roses on a piece of soft paper to every pound of tea, and keep the canister closely covered. 6296. Pharaoh's Serpents Eggs are made in the following way: Take mercury and dissolve it in moderately dilute nitric 6303. Το Prevent Stoves From Rustacid by means of heat, taking care, however, ing. Kerosene applied with a rag to stoves that there be always an excess of metallic will keep them from rusting during the sumduring the summercury remaining; decant the solution, and mer. It is also an excellent material to apply pour it into a solution of sulpho-cyanide of to all iron utensils used about a farm. ammonium or potassium, which may be 6304. To Remove Pin-Spots from To Remove Pin- Spots from bought at a good drug store, or of a dealer in Steel. Get a small iron box with a sliding top chemicals. Equal weights of both will answer. to it, fill it with pulverized charcoal, and im- A precipitate will fall to the bottom of the bed the pieces of steel in it, put in the top , beaker or jar, which is to be collected on a and lute with fire-clay. Heat it in a slow fire, filter and washed two or three times with wa- to a red heat, then take out and let it cool off. ter, when it is put in a warm place to dry. 6305. Remedy Against the Cracking Take for every pound of this material 1 ounce of Wooden Taps and Faucets. This is gum tragacanth which has been soaked in hot water. When the gum is completely softened it is to be transferred to a mortar, and the pulverized and the dried precipitate gradually mixed with it by means of a little water, so as to present a somewhat dry pill mass, from which pellets of the desired size best prevented by putting the taps and faucets in melting paraffine, and heating them there at a temperature of 212° Fahr., until bubbles of air cease to escape from the wood.

The whole is then allowed to cool to about 120° Fahr., when the taps are taken from the bath and cleaned from the adhering paraffine are formed by hand, put on a piece of glass, by rubbing with a dry coarse piece of cloth. and dried again; they are then ready for use. 6306. French Composition for Washfor Wash-